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- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
For me, the cherry on top is how the “InfoWars” name is still completely apt, for completely different reasons.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
I think there’s always going to be that group of people. Another example: folks that didn’t notice that The Colbert Report was satire.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
That also sounds like the kind of prank that Cards Against Humanity would pull if they had access to as much cash. I love this so much.
- Comment on fuckery 2 days ago:
So, “what in the isomorphic fuck” covers all the bases?
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.
I think I see a problem.
Also: that’s waaaay too many steps for an emergency. Imagine trying to dismantle the door trim when you have a concussion.
- Comment on Creamy Cartilage 5 days ago:
Oh wow. Congrats… I guess? Glad that your wife has access to good care for that condition.
I’ve been in the ER for something that… well I won’t say, but it was of interest to the attending folks. Next thing I knew, there were two grad students in tow, eager to learn stuff that you only usually see in a textbook. I recall feeling strangely proud, and more proud than embarrassed (oddly enough). It was a weird experience.
- Comment on Creamy Cartilage 5 days ago:
So… this sent me down a little rabbit hole. I just want to advise you all, fellow lemmings, to be good to your back from here on out.
www.umms.org/ummc/…/lumbar-herniated-disc
As the annulus weakens, at some point you may lift something or bend in such a way that you cause too much pressure across the disc. The weakened disc ruptures while you are doing something that five years earlier would not have caused a problem. Such is the aging process of the spine.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 week ago:
That makes sense. Tigers are just big cats - they’re all kinda jerks to each other (let alone other animals), but I suppose that comes with being an apex predator.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
The key phrase to remember here is: Price Discrimination.
Stores already possess the technology to track anyone through their shopping experience through loyalty cards. The “discounts” you get are really just a tax on everyone that doesn’t participate, and the benefits to the company for having your data are worth potentially losing business from un-tracked customers. That’s how valuable your data is.
So why aren’t we seeing per-customer targeting? This is not to suggest that businesses are benign here, but rather, just cautious about outright per-customer discounts and other price manipulation. Custom coupons are kinda/sorta a part of this. IMO, the door is still wide-open to find ways palatable to the customer (and courts) while dialing everyone in.
In that context, all cameras do is make the system practically impossible to dodge. Considering how much stores value that kind of information, it makes sense they’d invest to capture 100% of their retail activity.
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
As a (perhaps unintentional) slip, “an insensitive” works rather well here. Gatekeeping your field in a forum of open(ish)^1^ information exchange is just categorically “not nice”.
Personally, I would have opted for a portmanteau like “incentsitive”.
^1^ - Paywalls notwithstanding.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
The only good bug is a dead bug.
- Comment on Octopus 1 month ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Octopus 1 month ago:
Not just porn, but classic art by a famous artist. Check out Hokusai’s “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.”
- Comment on Missed Connection 1 month ago:
I recently spotted one that had this two-tone paint: copper and purple. I couldn’t decide if it was an improvement or not.
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
I’m inclined to agree. I think the best path through would be to focus on laws that benefit multiple minor players that have a seat at the table.
Antitrust laws in general are a good example. These function at the direct expense of big monopolies, but are exactly what companies need if they want in on what was monopolized. And in the case of breaking a monopoly down, the resulting “baby” companies given more power, growth opportunity, hiring opportunities (job growth) and money making potential than the parent. This can also spur economic growth for all the fat cats out there by creating many new investment and hiring potentials. Overall, if you can get past the monopoly itself (read: take the ball away from your billionaire of choice), everyone else involved stands to benefit.
There may be other strategies, but I can’t think of any right now. I think the key is to tip the scale in favor of more favorable outcomes, then repeat that a few more times, achieving incremental progress along the way. Doctorow outlines the ideal end state for all this, but it’s up to everyone else to figure out how to get there.
While I don’t like the idea of embracing capital to improve things, the whole system is currently run this way. Standing with other monied interests that are aligned with the same goal might be the only way to go.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Just yesterday, Mrs. Warp Core was trying to enroll with an online service. The self-service email confirmation link refused to function correctly in Firefox on a desktop operating system (Windows in this case). It worked flawlessly on Firefox+iOS. Said link also shuttled the user straight off to the phone app.
I’ll add that nearly ever other aspect of their public facing web, including the online chat support, worked flawlessly everywhere I tried it. This all just reeked of hostile design.
When asked about why this is, I simply said:
The browser provides good security and choice for the user. Apps provide good security and control for the vendor.
- Comment on Gender 1 month ago:
That’s a “lawful evil” move if I’ve ever seen one. I like it.
- Comment on Sample Text 1 month ago:
I think this meme template is a bit like The Aristocrats; many tellings but it’s all the same joke. In this case, I think almost any destination text would work and would have it’s own “ew” factor, some worse than others.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
Oh, it’s petty cash to be sure. If you have $100-ish bucks to throw around, you probably aren’t going to miss much by not doing this. Unless, of course, letting someone else take even one dollar from you in this way is against your religion or something (i.e. the principle of the thing). Conversely, if you need the handful of dollars this makes, you probably don’t have that kind of walking-around money in the first place.
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 1 month ago:
Which season is this? Winter, Still Winter, or Road Construction?
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
Jesus. This makes it reasonable to just buy $100 worth of your own game every month, just to make sure. Yeah, that’s a non-zero opportunity cost for you, and additional float for Valve, however petty it may be. But for a small developer, maybe that makes sense.
- Comment on Mafs innit 1 month ago:
I’m more impressed that you got the batter to stay put. Or is the entire appliance at 120 degrees?
- Comment on My wife misspoke and said "Neil Degrasse TITAN" 1 month ago:
I can see it now. It’s like The Fact Core from Portal, only worse.
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
Thank you! I want to ::sniff:: thank my coach, the whole team ::sniff::, and especially my mom for helping make this happen! ::sniff:: Love you mom!
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
Here’s a version for my fellow gluten-free peeps:
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
I just want to echo your sentiment with something I’ve been saying here for a while now:
Do not confuse information technology use for computer literacy.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
Yup. Nobody else gets those cookies.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
The other pivot point is The Pragmatic Programmer, which is totally understandable.
That book does a good job of grounding the reader through examples and parables from everywhere else but IT. By the end, you realize that good software engineering makes the best of general problem-solving skills, rather than some magical skillset peculiar to computing. You wind up reaching a place where you can begin to solve nearly any problem through use of the same principles. So @codex here, perhaps effortlessly, went on to management instead.
- Comment on Now the party has started 2 months ago:
Same. Let’s rock.
- Comment on Now the party has started 2 months ago:
Printed on the bomb:
| In case of accidental detonation: have a nice day. Thanks for reading.
